CVE-2006-3656

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 20.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-07-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to cause memory corruption via a crafted PowerPoint file, which triggers the corruption when the file is closed. NOTE: due to the lack of available details as of 20060717, it is unclear how this is related to CVE-2006-3655, CVE-2006-3660, and CVE-2006-3590, although it is possible that they are all different.

Affected products

Microsoft PowerPoint for Android: 2003, 2003-sp1, 2003-sp2

References

http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/PP2003sp2patched_fr_exploit-method.txt
http://packetstormsecurity.org/0607-exploits/mspp-poc3.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/21061
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440108/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440370/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440867/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18993
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19229
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2815
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27781
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27782
http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/PP2003sp2patched_fr_exploit-method.txt

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